LFG Bulletin, December 2009

Louise Mycock louise.mycock at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Thu Dec 10 17:28:26 UTC 2009


LFG BULLETIN
DECEMBER 2009

** Please send bulletin items to me by email  **
** <Louise.Mycock "at" ling-phil "dot" ox "dot" ac "dot" uk>**

Next issue: MARCH 2010

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LFG website:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/

International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/

More about LFG:
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt

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CONTENTS

1. First call for papers for LFG 2010
2. Locations for LFG 2011 and LFG 2012
3. Photos from LFG09 in Cambridge, UK
4. Membership of the ILFGA and elections
5. 2011 Linguistic Institute - call for proposals
6. Powerset internship opportunity
7. Drafts for comments
8. Recent LFG work
9. Boilerplate

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1. FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS FOR LFG 2010

FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
18-20 June 2010
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Conference website: http://www.carleton.ca/lfg2010/
Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfg2010 'at' carleton.ca
Abstract submission receipt deadline:  15 February 2010, 11:59 pm GMT
Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg10

LFG 2010 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical- 
Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational  
work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language  
employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims  
to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested  
in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as  
the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels  
of structuring, including those of syntactic categories, grammatical  
relations, semantics and discourse.
Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at  
the following sites:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/

SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS

The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min. +  
15 min. discussion), and poster/system presentations. Contributions  
can focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with  
an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives,  
whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational.  
Presentations should describe original, unpublished work.

DISSERTATION SESSION

As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that  
will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or  
other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be  
completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made  
publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this  
session should provide an overview of the main original points of the  
dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute  
discussion period. The International LFG Association (ILFGA) will pay  
the conference fees for the students presenting at the student session.

Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to  
student submissions.

TIMETABLE

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2010
Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2010
Conference: 18-20 June 2010

SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS

Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation  
session must be received by February 15, 2010. All abstracts should be  
submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should be in  
the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to two A4 pages in  
10pt or larger type and should include a title. Omit name and  
affiliation, and obvious self-reference. Note: we no longer ask for a  
separate page for data and figures (c-/f- and related structures).  
They can be included in the text of the abstract, obeying the overall  
two-page limit. Please submit your abstract in .pdf or .doc format. If  
you have any trouble converting your file into any of these formats,  
please contact the Program Committee at the address below.

While the number of submissions is not restricted, at most one single- 
authored submission or two first-authored submissions per person will  
be accepted for oral presentation. Authors may want to keep this in  
mind when stating their preferences concerning the mode of  
presentation of their submissions.

All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people. Papers will  
appear in the proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI  
Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed volume  
published by CSLI Publications.

ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems using  
the EasyChair submission system, please contact the Program Committee.

Program Committee - Email: lfg10 'at' easychair.org
Martin Forst, Powerset/Microsoft, United States of America
Louisa Sadler, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Local conference organisers - Email: lfg2010 'at' carleton.ca
Ash Asudeh, Carleton University, Canada
Ida Toivonen, Carleton University, Canada
INFORMATION about the venue and the conference, as well as  
accommodation and registration details will be posted on the  
conference website.


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2. LOCATIONS FOR LFG 2011 AND LFG 2012

The Executive Committee of the International Lexical-Functional  
Grammar Association is pleased to announce the locations of the 2011  
and 2012 LFG conferences.

LFG 2011 will be held at Hong Kong University.
LFG 2012 will be held in Bali.

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3. PHOTOS FROM LFG09 IN CAMBRIDGE, UK

 From Anna Kibort:

Photos from the 14th International LFG Conference at Trinity College,  
Cambridge, UK (13-16 July 2009), are now available on the web at the  
following address:

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~lfgcamb/

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4. MEMBERSHIP OF THE ILFGA AND ELECTIONS

The ILFGA mailing list is used for official communications of the  
association, including messages about elections to ILFGA offices.  
Signing up for this list makes you an official ILFGA member. Members  
of the Association can be elected for office in the Association, vote  
in elections, and participate in the Annual Business Meeting, held at  
the Annual LFG Conference.

To join the ILFGA mailing list, send an email to ilfga-members-join  
"at" lists "dot" stanford "dot" edu

By signing up now, you will ensure that you are able to vote in the  
next elections and that you receive all the spring announcements about  
nominations.

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5. 2011 LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE - CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The 2011 Linguistic Institute, which will take place at the University  
of Colorado, at Boulder from July 5 to August 5, 2011, is seeking  
proposals for courses to be offered at the Institute.

Call for proposals: http://verbs.colorado.edu/LSA2011/course_proposal.html

Institute website: http://verbs.colorado.edu/LSA2011/index.html

E-mail contact:  lsa2011atcoloradodotedu

Deadline for course proposals: January 15, 2010.  Web-based submission  
to be available mid December, 2009.

Major sponsors of the 2011 Linguistic Institute include the Linguistic  
Society of America and the Department of Linguistics, University of  
Colorado at Boulder.

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6. POWERSET INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY

The Natural Language Engineering group at Powerset, a Microsoft  
company, is looking for candidates for a 2010 summer internship at  
their San Francisco office.  Exact dates are flexible; all internships  
are 12 weeks.

The internship project will center around multiword expressions (e.g.  
noun-noun compounds) and ways in which to improve their analysis for  
search applications.  The Powerset NLP technology includes finite- 
state morphologies, a log-linear name tagger, an LFG grammar, and a  
set of semantics rules.  The exact nature of the project will depend  
on the interests and background of the intern.

Applicants must be PhD students.  US citizenship is not required.

To apply for the internship, submit an application via:

  http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/jobs/intern/default.aspx

Please mention natural language processing or computational  
linguistics in the application.  (Note that the San Francisco campus
does not list NLP as a research interest; do not worry about this.) By  
submitting your application, you will also be considered for  
internships at other campuses, such as Microsoft Research in Redmond,  
WA and Mountain View, CA.

Please contact Tracy Holloway King (Tracy "dot" King "at" microsoft  
"dot" com) with questions about this internship.

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7. DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS

'Drafts for comments' offers bulletin readers the opportunity to  
submit information about drafts or projects on which they would like  
to receive comments from the community. This brings work in progress  
to the attention of the community and plays some of the role that  
previous incarnations of the archive played.

Please submit basic article/project information and a) a URL if the  
item is available online or else b) your contact email.

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8. RECENT LFG WORK

Send details of your recent work to Louise.Mycock /at/ ling-phil.ox.ac.uk


8.1 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

LFG conference papers are available electronically at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/ONLN.shtml


8.2 PHD/MASTERS

Blom, Corrien (2005). "Complex Predicates in Dutch: Synchrony and  
Diachrony". Utrecht: LOT.


8.3 PUBLICATIONS

Hahm, Hyun-Jong  (2009).  'Persian Number Agreement'. Paper presented  
at the Texas Linguistics Society meeting, UT Austin, Friday, Nov. 13,  
2009.

Wechsler, Stephen and Hyun-Jong Hahm (to appear). ‘Polite Plurals and  
Adjective Agreement’.  To appear in "Morphology".

Wechsler, Stephen (to appear). 'Mixed Agreement, the Person Feature,  
and the Index/Concord Distinction'.  To appear in "Natural Language  
and Linguistic Theory".


8.4 DOWNLOADABLE LFG PAPERS

A list of web-pages where people post downloadable LFG papers:

http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/LFG/

Additional suggestions welcome.

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9. BOILERPLATE

The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end  
of every bulletin can be accessed at:

http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt

The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the  
boilerplate section.

http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/

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